Research



Social bookmarking
Citation managers
Search engines
Encyclopedias
Browsers
Libraries


Social Bookmarking tools


What is it?
Social bookmarking allows you to save and categorize websites by tagging them with key words. These tags can be shared with others and networked to permit a sophisticated way to collect and save web sources.

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Delicious
Create a delicious tag for a course and have students search the web and tag web sites in delicious with that unique tag. Class members build a list of useful sites everyone can share.
Diigo
See Clay Burell from his blog Education
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Citation management tools


What is it?
Citation management tools help you collect sources and organize them.

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ways to use this tool
Zotero:
Bibliography app (it's now in the cloud!) Collect sources, organize them per citation forms, and print out bibliographies
citeulike
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Uses for these Research tools will be added to this page:
search engines
encyclopedias
browsers
libraries
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